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the lines of the Romantics.
the lines of the Romantics.
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compositions are strongly charged with what may be called an extra-musical emotion;
hence the classification of their composer as a romantic.
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revert to the mental state of 'simple Indian swains', was the least of the ambitions
of a German Romantic. . . The greatness of Shakespeare, in the eyes of these Romantics,
lay in his Universalität;
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Franck,..and of such late romantics as Reger, Jongen, and Elgar, rely upon a very
large instrument.
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Romantics not on the grounds that the intellectual results yielded by it were false,
but rather on the grounds that they were inadequate.
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476
Why Mary Shelley felt it important to alter the legendary materials loved by Clerval
is unknown. It may simply be dictated by a change in the conditions of her culture.
Although Roland, the hero of Roncesvalles, is identical with the title character of
Ariosto's Orlando Furioso (one of the books specified in 1818), in this rendering
Clerval's interest in him is more "romantic," less bookish. His other literary passions
are of a similar generic kind, rather than for specific books. On the other hand,
that the Battle of Roncesvalles was fought against Saracen attackers, who are also
the "infidels" who held the "holy sepulchre" of Jerusalem against the crusaders in
Victor's third example of their texts of romance, indicates an early manifestation
of the interest in eastern, or Mohammedan, culture Clerval will later develop.
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without his Mistress, all Virtue and Merit are summed up in his inviolable Fidelity.
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names in the family.
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sentiments,..a contempt of life, a boldness for enterprize, chastity, and purity of
sentiment. . . People whose breasts are dulled with vice, or stupified by nature,
call this passion romantic love; but when it was the mode, it was the diagnostic of
a virtuous age.